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For the story about the angry Burger King worker kicking down the anti-abortion signs, the link posted went to a story about Uganda. I've got a link for the actual story. You're welcome. :) [http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/07/11/caught-tape-woman-faces-assault-charge-attack-pro-life-activists] [[User:Atum|Atum]] 22:45, 13 July 2014 (EDT)
For the story about the angry Burger King worker kicking down the anti-abortion signs, the link posted went to a story about Uganda. I've got a link for the actual story. You're welcome. :) [http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/07/11/caught-tape-woman-faces-assault-charge-attack-pro-life-activists] [[User:Atum|Atum]] 22:45, 13 July 2014 (EDT)
:Not me, mate. You have the wrong editor. I haven't even read the Main Page today. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 23:51, 13 July 2014 (EDT)
:Not me, mate. You have the wrong editor. I haven't even read the Main Page today. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 23:51, 13 July 2014 (EDT)
==The invisible WWI==
The First Wold War has been on my mind a bit recently. You see, the War began 100 years ago last week.
Every year about this time I disappear into my “study” (you Yanks would call it a “den”) and listen (loudly) to Britten’s ‘’War Requiem”; Handel and Bach in turn get a pounding at certain other times of the year.
Then yesterday I read of the death of a great Australian classical composer, Peter Sculthorpe. I spent the rest of the day with CDs of his music as my companions. One of his shorter pieces is ‘’Small Town’’ an evocation of any of the villages and towns dotted across the continent from Peter’s own northern Tasmania to the arid outback. The middle movement of this work consists of the haunting ‘’Last Post’’ featuring a solo trumpet – you see, every small town has a war memorial.
Or so it seems from my observations during over 50 years of poking around the backblocks of this big country. Sometimes it is in the grounds of the local church, often attached to the community hall, frequently part of the public playground/picnic area beside the local sports ground.; which is called “The Memorial Oval” or similar. I have seen this mini cenotaph stand alone amongst the detritus of a settlement that died when the mine or cannery closed or the new main road bypassed it or there was one drought or flood too many. No doubt there were times when the sheer sad weight of numbers on the remembrance board made life seem untenable for those remaining, so the memorial was erected by a town already dying.
A trip around New Zealand reveals much the same; and it may interest some that, in England and Wales, there are so few villages or parishes that survived the War without casualties that they are called “Thankful Villages”. At last count, there are only 52 of them.
I know America didn’t join the War until 1917, and I know its number of casualties compared to total population was not as great so the War may not as indelible on the national consciousness, but I find the complete lack of recognition of this centenary on Conservapedia’s Main Page most disappointing. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 20:33, 9 August 2014 (EDT)